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Meaning of the story goes | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C1

Definitions

The story is usually depicted as follows.

Equivalents

Español va de cuento

Français il parait (que…) on dit (que…)

Examples

“The story goes that they won the day.”

“James Kirkwood's play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! opened nearly three years ago on Broadway, and, so the story goes, was promptly killed by critics — presumably because of its gay material.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

the streets are paved with gold the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must the struggle is real the sun is over the yardarm the sun sets on something the tackies hit the tar